Upcoming Events
The Crown Center for Jewish Studies sponsors frequent lectures and symposia. Among the notable upcoming events are:
Thursday, November 19, 2009
"Searching for Home: Cuban Jewish Stories from the Island and the Diaspora"
Ruth Behar
Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies at The University of Michigan
5:00 p.m. Kresge Hall 2-301
1880 Campus Drive
Co-sponsored by the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
Monday, March 1
The Allan Harris Memorial Lecture in Jewish Studies
“How Jewish is Jewish History? Jewish Metahistories and the Jewish
Historical Experience”
Moshe Rosman
Department of Jewish History of Bar Ilan University
7:00 p.m., Norris Center Wildcat Room
Co-sponsored by The Center for Historical Studies
Sunday April 25 - Tuesday April 27
The Middle East in the 1950s - Historical Perspectives:
Israel, the Arab World, and the Great Powers
an international conference co-sponsored byThe Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies, The Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies and
The Northwestern Middle East Forum
Recent Events
Wednesday, November 4
"The Monk's Haggadah: The Story Behind A Remarkable 15th C.
Codex and Its Discovery."
David M. Stern
Ruth Meltzer Professor of Classical Hebrew
University of Pennsylvania
Monday, October 26
"The Story of Rahab: Harlot of Jericho, Heroine of Israel"
Gary A. Rendsburg
Blanche and Irving Laurie Chair in Jewish History
Rutgers University
Thursday, April 23
The Allan Harris Memorial Lecture in Jewish Studies
“A Medieval Pilgrim and Poet: Judah Halevi and the Land of Israel”
Raymond Scheindlin
Professor of Medieval Hebrew Literature at The Jewish Theological Seminary and director of JTS's Shalom Spiegel Institute of Medieval Hebrew Poetry
7:00 p.m.
Norris University Center
Wildcat Room, 101
1999 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus
Monday, April 6
The Cluster on Russian, East European and Jewish Studies and
The Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies present
"A Bit of my Brain: Venice as Urban Theatre in Dickens " Pictures from Italy"
Murray Baumgarten
3:00 p.m. Hagstrum Room, University Hall 201
and
"Venice, the Jews, and Italian Culture"
Tuesday, April 7
3:00 pm,
Hagstrum Room, University Hall 201
Murray Baumgarten is Professor of English and Comparative Literature;
Neufeld-Levin Chair, with Peter Kenez, in Holocaust Studies; and
Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz.
Monday, April 13
Michael Chabon, on Edgar Allan Poe
7:30 PM
Pulitzer-prize winning author and cultural observer Presented by the Program in American Studies, co-sponsored by Jewish Studies and other departments
Owen L. Coon Forum in
Jacobs Center (Leverone Hall)
2001 Sheridan Road (near Foster St.)
Evanston Campus
Free & Open To The Public
Michael Chabon is one of the most distinguished American writers of his generation. His novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Klay won the New York Society Library Prize for Fiction, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, the Commonwealth Club Gold Medal, and the Pulitzer Prize in 2001. Chabon's novella The Final Solution (2004) was awarded the 2005 National Jewish Book Award and also the 2003 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction by The Paris Review, and his most recent book, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, won the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Novel. He also is a prominent critic and cultural observer, as well as a screenwriter and children’s book author. Chabon’s works explore themes which include American superheroism, Jewish identity, and history as popular culture, and his unique style blends complex literary metaphor with the action and energy characteristic of comic books. This lecture is part of the “Great Authors” series made possible by the generous support of the Office of the President, Northwestern University.
Tuesday, April 14
Adina Hoffman
5:15 p.m.
Adina Hoffman reads from her new book
My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century
John Evans Alumni Center
1800 Sheridan Road
Evanston Campus
Author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood. Adina Hoffman's essays and criticism have appeared in the Nation, the Washington Post, the Times Literary Supplement, the Boston Globe, Raritan, and on the World Service of the BBC. Formerly a film critic for the American Prospect and the Jerusalem Post, she is one of the founders and editors of Ibis Editions, a small press that publishes the literature of the Levant. She lives in Jerusalem. Presented by The Center for Writing Arts co-sponsored by Jewish Studies and other programs
Thursday, April 16
2.30-5.30 pm
Judith Butler
University of California –Berkeley
"Keeping Company With Oneself"
(Arendt on Eichmann contra Kant)
Followed by a round table with Judith Butler and responses from:
Peg Birmingham, Philosophy, De Paul University
Mary Dietz, Political Science Northwestern University
Susannah Gottlieb, English Northwestern University
Linda Zerilli, Political Science University Of Chicago
Tech Auditorium LR2 –
Lecture Room 2 (L171)
Northwestern University
2145 Sheridan Rd Evanston Campus
Sponsored by the Kreeger Wolf Lecture Fund, the Department of Philosophy, the Program of Jewish Studies, the Program of Comparative Literary Studies, and the Program of Gender Studies at Northwestern University with further support from the Department of Political Science, Northwestern and the Department of Philosophy, DePaul University
For descriptions of the Center's endowed lectureship series, symposia and conferences, and other academic events, along with listings of the principal scholars who have participated in them, please see the corresponding links on the left.
